A POLICEMAN appeared briefly in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday in connection with charges of attempted murder, corruption and theft. Reports on Tuesday indicated that Sergeant Neil David Baard, 35, is being investigated for possible involvement in the bombing of the St Elmo’s restaurant at Camps Bay in November last year. The investigating […]

THE South African cross-country team which will compete in the AAAC Southern Region Cross-Country Championships in Zimbabwe was announced on Wednesday. The national team set to compete at the IAAF World Championships in Portugal will be selected at the Zimbabwean competition. The team: Men: Whaddon Niewoudt, Richard Mavuso, Solomon Khambule, Hendrick Ramaala, Shadrack Hoff, George […]

PARLIAMENT’S labour committee has agreed that transitional provisions in the Basic Conditions of Employment Act should be amended to allow a more gradual cutting of working hours from the current 60 a week to the 45 in the security industry as stipulated by the Act. SABC radio news reported the security industry is to be […]

FOEMER Bafana Bafana coach Philippe Troussier, John Toshak and Artur George are among candidates to replace Moroccan soccer coach Henri Michel, who quit after what he described as a media smear campaign. State-run radio said Morocco’s FRMF soccer governing body has set up a six-member committee to study “profiles of various coaches” to replace Frenchman […]

RETAILER Woolworths announced plans on Tuesday to restructure into two core divisions, one broadly focused on marketing and retail, the other on information technology and financial services. “[This will] enable it to benefit from the rationalisation opportunities in the Wooltru Group and to use the group’s exciting e-commerce initiatives for the benefit of its customers,” […]

SPRINGBOK loose-forward Corne Krige will take his place in the back-row when the Stormers take on Western province in a pre-season match at Bellville-Tech on Wednesday. Stormers coach Alan Solomons seems to have settled on a side with which to kick off the Cape side’s Super-12, with only hooker Johan van Wyk an uncertainty. The […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Bulawayo | Wednesday 6.00pm. GRAEME Hick, playing for England in the country of his birth, led the touring side to a five-wicket win over Zimbabwe with an unbeaten 87 in the first one-day international on Wednesday. Hick and all-rounder Mark Ealham saw England home with an unbroken sixth wicket partnership of 90. England […]

JUDGE Chris Botha on Wednesday morning turned down an application by the State to keep the accused in the R17,4-million Bronkhorstspruit heist trial appear in shackles for the remainder of the trial. The application came after three of the accused escaped from court last week, one of the escapees was shot in the attempt. The […]

MANDE Sidibe, an advisor to President Alpha Omar Konare, was named as Mali’s new prime minister on Tuesday by presidential decree. Sidibe, 60, a trained economist, replaces Ibrahim Boubacar Keita who resigned on Monday, in what many observers believe is a move to prepare his candidature for presidential elections in 2002.

A TOUGH challenge awaits the country’s top canoeists as they attempt the non-stop 110km Husqvarna Canoe marathon on February 25. The top competitors in the field of more than twenty paddlers are recent Dusi Canoe marathon winners Mark Perrow and Martin Dreyer. Perrow and Dreyer, who last year claimed victory in the race when he […]